xvi, 352 p. : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-340) and index

Introduction: Labor and Landscapes -- Toward a Labor Geography -- Challenging the Global Locally: Labor in a Postindustrial Global City -- Spatial Sabotage: Containerization, Union Work Rules, and the Geography of Waterfront Work -- Scales of Struggle: Labor's Rescaling of Contract Bargaining in the U.S. East Coast Longshoring Industry -- Labor as an Agent of Globalization and as a Global Agent -- Engineering Spaces of Anti-Communism: Connecting Cold War Global Strategy to Local Everyday Life -- Thinking Locally, Acting Globally?: The Practice of International Labor Solidarity and the Geography of the Global Economy -- International Labor Union Activity and the Landscapes of Transition in Central and Eastern Europe -- Labor Geographies: A Conclusion and a New Beginning?

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